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normal to go to Convention. B., by the way, has the a w f u l honor As f o r "the Williamses" t h i s , i s their Sabbatical year as f a r as
of being president of the Home Economics Division of the East summer school is concerned, and barring accidents, Convention week
Tennessee Educational Association. w i l l find them both i n Lynchburg prepared to have as w o n d e r f u l a
B i g T i m e as they experienced i n the Convention of 1912.
Here's my trump card, O ye hesitators! M a r y Rust is coming
a l l the way f r o m N o v a Scotia f o r that A l p h a O Convention, and she Chattanooga has recently been visited by the worst flood since the
wants us to make i t a reunion f o r Omicron Chapter as w e l l . C i v i l W a r times and Alpha O's i n the "Dynamo of Dixie" had
ample opportunity to apply a l l the best principles of their fraternity.
M y letter to Jess M c F a r l a n d brought the greatest news to me, They a l l worked on the relief committees, making thousands of sand-
though the other Omicron girls may know already of her marriage wiches and gallons of soup, soliciting funds, collecting bedding and
to William G. Cullen. They are living in Tucson, Arizona. c l o t h i n g f o r the flood-sufferers, superintending the housing o f
refugees and the distribution o f supplies d u r i n g the whole week the
I t is a f a r cry f r o m Arizona to Des Moines, Iowa, but Jess Tennessee was on the rampage.
Edmonds Cromer could live at the north pole and we'd still feel
close to her. She's that kind. H e r letter brought j o y to my heart, A n d as a closing item, I want to tell you that long before the Feb-
f o r she is going to j o i n the Panhellenic in Des Moines, and she asked ruary T o D R A G M A was issued, Louise Wiley had conceived, and the
where to send her subscription to T o D R A G M A . N O convention f o r active chapter had executed, the idea o f a round-robin letter to the
Jess! She is going to take her kiddies, Robert and Harriet, to the alumnae, and we have already had one such treat. You see Louise has
country to stay from A p r i l to September, when Robert starts to been an alumna, and she knows b y experience how we long to be kept
school. i n close touch w i t h our o w n chapter and as a graduate student she
suggested the plan. I am happy f o r this opportunity to speak f o r a l l
1 might as well admit that I always impose shamefully on the old girls, and tell those dear girls of the active chapter how much
Felicia Metcalfe. This time I assigned her the thankless task of we appreciate their thought o f us and how much we d i d enjoy that
ferreting out news about the other Fayetteville Alpha's. She an- letter.
swered, i n a somewhat alliterative manner, that she herself is dishing
out delectable doses o f duty and discipline i n French and Science i n
the H u n t s v i l l e H i g h School, and that as f a r as she has been able to
discover, each o f the other Alpha's is busy making home happy f o r a
husband. Fay Waggoner Buchanan is filling the role o f f o n d
parent to a whole bunch of sturdy little Buchanans, while her sister
Laura Moore, has only recently acquired her first heir. Mrs. E d
Harris (Sallie Frances of the fascinating laugh) and her husband
are l i v i n g on a f a r m about five miles f r o m Fayetteville, and when I
tell you that f a r m is a typical middle Tennessee one, I've said enough.
Before I leave Fayetteville f o r "pastures new," allow me to add that
Felicia w i l l be at Convention i n June.

I had "me doots" about getting an answer from Ethel Terry over

i n Memphis, f o r Ethel is i n the w h i r l o f society i n the B l u f f City.

However, she'stopped w h i r l i n g long enough to write me that she is
to have a very wonderful trip to New York this summer that w i l l
prevent her coming to the Convention. N o w , I hate that, because
Ethel T e r r y is one o f the most fascinating and attractive w o m e n T
know, and Omicron Chapter is keenly desirous of sending her bright-
est and best to our anniversary Convention. A n d neither is H a r r i e t
Greve going, unless I kidnap her, f o r she insists o n carrying out her
contract with the University of Chattanooga Summer School.